The Applications (programs) |
The programs are listed in alphabetical order, Look at the individual applications or go to the GROUPS page to search by category.
EMBASSY applications are described in separate documentation for each package.
Program name | Description |
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aaindexextract | Extract amino acid property data from AAINDEX |
abiview | Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file |
acdc | Test an application ACD file |
acdpretty | Correctly reformat an application ACD file |
acdtable | Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file |
acdtrace | Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing) |
acdvalid | Validate an application ACD file |
aligncopy | Reads and writes alignments |
aligncopypair | Reads and writes pairs from alignments |
antigenic | Finds antigenic sites in proteins |
backtranambig | Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence |
backtranseq | Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence |
banana | Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA |
biosed | Replace or delete sequence sections |
btwisted | Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence |
cai | Calculate codon adaptation index |
chaos | Draw a chaos game representation plot for a nucleotide sequence |
charge | Draw a protein charge plot |
checktrans | Reports STOP codons and ORF statistics of a protein |
chips | Calculates Nc codon usage statistic |
cirdna | Draws circular maps of DNA constructs |
codcmp | Codon usage table comparison |
codcopy | Copy and reformat a codon usage table |
coderet | Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables |
compseq | Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences |
cons | Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment |
consambig | Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment |
cpgplot | Identify and plot CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s) |
cpgreport | Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s) |
cusp | Create a codon usage table from nucleotide sequence(s) |
cutgextract | Extract codon usage tables from from CUTG database |
cutseq | Removes a section from a sequence |
dan | Calculates nucleic acid melting temperature |
dbiblast | Index a BLAST database |
dbifasta | Index a fasta file database |
dbiflat | Index a flat file database |
dbigcg | Index a GCG formatted database |
dbxfasta | Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices |
dbxflat | Index a flat file database using b+tree indices |
dbxgcg | Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices |
degapseq | Removes non-alphabetic (e.g. gap) characters from sequences |
density | Draw a nucleic acid density plot |
descseq | Alter the name or description of a sequence |
diffseq | Compare and report features of two similar sequences |
digest | Reports on protein proteolytic enzyme or reagent cleavage sites |
distmat | Create a distance matrix from a multiple sequence alignment |
dotmatcher | Draw a threshold dotplot of two sequences |
dotpath | Draw a non-overlapping wordmatch dotplot of two sequences |
dottup | Displays a wordmatch dotplot of two sequences |
dreg | Regular expression search of nucleotide sequence(s) |
edialign | Local multiple alignment of sequences |
einverted | Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences |
embossdata | Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files |
embossversion | Writes the current EMBOSS version number to a file |
emma | Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalW wrapper) |
emowse | Search protein sequences by digest fragment molecular weight |
entret | Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files |
epestfind | Finds PEST motifs as potential proteolytic cleavage sites |
eprimer3 | Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos |
equicktandem | Finds tandem repeats in nucleotide sequences |
est2genome | Align EST sequences to genomic DNA sequence |
etandem | Finds tandem repeats in a nucleotide sequence |
extractalign | Extract regions from a sequence alignment |
extractfeat | Extract features from sequence(s) |
extractseq | Extract regions from a sequence |
featcopy | Reads and writes a feature table |
featreport | Reads and writes a feature table |
findkm | Calculate and plot enzyme reaction data |
freak | Generate residue/base frequency table or plot |
fuzznuc | Search for patterns in nucleotide sequences |
fuzzpro | Search for patterns in protein sequences |
fuzztran | Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated) |
garnier | Predicts protein secondary structure using GOR method |
geecee | Calculate fractional GC content of nucleic acid sequences |
getorf | Finds and extracts open reading frames (ORFs) |
helixturnhelix | Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences |
hmoment | Calculate and plot hydrophobic moment for protein sequence(s) |
iep | Calculate the isoelectric point of proteins |
infoalign | Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment |
infobase | Return information on a given nucleotide base |
inforesidue | Return information on a given amino acid residue |
infoseq | Display basic information about sequences |
isochore | Plots isochores in DNA sequences |
jaspextract | Extract data from JASPAR |
jaspscan | Scans DNA sequences for transcription factors |
lindna | Draws linear maps of DNA constructs |
listor | Write a list file of the logical OR of two sets of sequences |
makenucseq | Create random nucleotide sequences |
makeprotseq | Create random protein sequences |
marscan | Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences |
maskambignuc | Masks all ambiguity characters in nucleotide sequences with N |
maskambigprot | Masks all ambiguity characters in protein sequences with X |
maskfeat | Write a sequence with masked features |
maskseq | Write a sequence with masked regions |
matcher | Waterman-Eggert local alignment of two sequences |
megamerger | Merge two large overlapping DNA sequences |
merger | Merge two overlapping sequences |
msbar | Mutate a sequence |
mwcontam | Find weights common to multiple molecular weights files |
mwfilter | Filter noisy data from molecular weights file |
needle | Needleman-Wunsch global alignment of two sequences |
newcpgreport | Identify CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s) |
newcpgseek | Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s) |
newseq | Create a sequence file from a typed-in sequence |
nohtml | Remove mark-up (e.g. HTML tags) from an ASCII text file |
noreturn | Remove carriage return from ASCII files |
nospace | Remove all whitespace from an ASCII text file |
notab | Replace tabs with spaces in an ASCII text file |
notseq | Write to file a subset of an input stream of sequences |
nthseq | Write to file a single sequence from an input stream of sequences |
octanol | Draw a White-Wimley protein hydropathy plot |
oddcomp | Identify proteins with specified sequence word composition |
palindrome | Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequence(s) |
pasteseq | Insert one sequence into another |
patmatdb | Searches protein sequences with a sequence motif |
patmatmotifs | Scan a protein sequence with motifs from the PROSITE database |
pepcoil | Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences |
pepinfo | Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel |
pepnet | Draw a helical net for a protein sequence |
pepstats | Calculates statistics of protein properties |
pepwheel | Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence |
pepwindow | Draw a Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein sequence |
pepwindowall | Draw Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein alignment |
plotcon | Plot conservation of a sequence alignment |
plotorf | Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence |
polydot | Draw dotplots for all-against-all comparison of a sequence set |
preg | Regular expression search of protein sequence(s) |
prettyplot | Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting |
prettyseq | Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file |
primersearch | Search DNA sequences for matches with primer pairs |
printsextract | Extract data from PRINTS database for use by pscan |
profit | Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix |
prophecy | Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment |
prophet | Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile |
prosextract | Processes the PROSITE motif database for use by patmatmotifs |
pscan | Scans protein sequence(s) with fingerprints from the PRINTS database |
psiphi | Calculates phi and psi torsion angles from protein coordinates |
rebaseextract | Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications |
recoder | Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change |
redata | Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database |
remap | Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence |
restover | Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang |
restrict | Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence |
revseq | Reverse and complement a nucleotide sequence |
seealso | Finds programs with similar function to a specified program |
seqmatchall | All-against-all word comparison of a sequence set |
seqret | Reads and writes (returns) sequences |
seqretsplit | Reads sequences and writes them to individual files |
showalign | Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format |
showdb | Displays information on configured databases |
showfeat | Display features of a sequence in pretty format |
showorf | Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format |
showseq | Displays sequences with features in pretty format |
shuffleseq | Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition |
sigcleave | Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence |
silent | Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change |
sirna | Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA |
sixpack | Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs |
sizeseq | Sort sequences by size |
skipredundant | Remove redundant sequences from an input set |
skipseq | Reads and writes (returns) sequences, skipping first few |
splitter | Split sequence(s) into smaller sequences |
stretcher | Needleman-Wunsch rapid global alignment of two sequences |
stssearch | Search a DNA database for matches with a set of STS primers |
supermatcher | Calculate approximate local pair-wise alignments of larger sequences |
syco | Draw synonymous codon usage statictic plot for a nucleotide sequence |
tcode | Identify protein-coding regions using Fickett TESTCODE statistic |
textsearch | Search the textual description of sequence(s) |
tfextract | Process TRANSFAC transcription factor database for use by tfscan |
tfm | Displays full documentation for an application |
tfscan | Identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences |
tmap | Predict and plot transmembrane segments in protein sequences |
tranalign | Generate an aligment of nucleic coding regions from aligned proteins |
transeq | Translate nucleic acid sequences |
trimest | Remove poly-A tails from nucleotide sequences |
trimseq | Remove unwanted characters from start and end of sequence(s) |
trimspace | Remove extra whitespace from an ASCII text file |
twofeat | Finds neighbouring pairs of features in sequence(s) |
union | Concatenate multiple sequences into a single sequence |
vectorstrip | Removes vectors from the ends of nucleotide sequence(s) |
water | Smith-Waterman local alignment of sequences |
whichdb | Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it |
wobble | Plot third base position variability in a nucleotide sequence |
wordcount | Count and extract unique words in DNA sequence(s) |
wordfinder | Match large sequences against one or more other sequences |
wordmatch | Finds regions of identity (exact matches) of two sequences |
wossname | Finds programs by keywords in their short description |
yank | Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file |